Pete Hegseth: “Current and future training would have to be curtailed if the Pentagon does not get its budget needs met urgently.”

Rest assured that every dollar appropriated to the Department of War will be focused on building the lethality of our joint force, and reinforcing peace through strength.

Without these funds, we face critical shortfalls that threaten our ability to also simply pay our service members, rapidly replenish equipment and munitions, and sustain vital operations without disruption.

ensure they never have a path to a nuclear bomb, full stop.

There is a cost to doing very difficult things, to going out and defending your country, and ensuring radical Islamist crazies don’t get a nuclear weapon.